Some specials can set enemies ablaze, but simply touching your character can transfer the effect to them, so be careful, and try to keep it on the enemy, as the victim is draining life the entire time. Items are picked up by walking over them. One item clones your character. Enemies can be grabbed, but they have to be hit a few times first, then walked into. From a grab there's only one move(Y obviously. Actually the clones have shown that there are more grab moves, I just don't know how to figure them out). In between stages you can combine ingredients you've gather to try to make a recipe that will restore a lot of health(at least, I think that's their only purpose), which as you might have guessed from the title, is the main gimmick of the game. In one of the more aggravating aspects of the game, you game over in 1 life, but there do seem to be infinite continues. You just have to use the continue option after the "Game" option on the title screen. It allows you to change characters, but you do pick up at the screen you were last on.